Start your download

Select the Google products you’d like to include in your download and select Next.

Choose the file type that you’d like your data in and how you want to get it (either by a download link or directly into your Google Drive).

Select Create archive.

Once the archive is created, you’ll get an email to let you know it’s ready. Depending on the amount of information in your account, this process could take a few minutes or several hours, but most people get their link the same day they request it.

Note: Your content from Google Play Music isn't included when you create an archive. To download your music, use the Google Play Music Manager.

If you’re missing a product that you use, let us know. There is usually a way for us to get your data to you.

Common questions

Deciding what format you should choose depends on the service, type of data, and your intended use of it. We have chosen types that we believe are the most useful and portable, for example, we export contacts as vCard, which is a very common format for e-mail providers. We often will also provide additional options to fit your specific needs.

In order to make sure your data will be downloaded, we limit these zip files to 2GB. Archives that are larger than 2GB are split into multiple zip files. Selecting the tgz or tbz format for your archive will increase the size limit to 50GB, so it is much less likely that your archive will be split.

Note: Special software may be required to unpack a tgz or tbz archive. Keep in mind that these types of files can’t have unicode characters in the file names.

When you export your mail from Gmail, each message's labels are preserved in a special X-Gmail-Labels header in your download file. While no mail client recognizes this header now, most mail clients allow for extensions to be written that could make use of the labels.